- •I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his father,
- •It may be history, it may be only legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it
- •In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter
- •It had a hundred thousand inhabitants — some think double as many. The
- •Very picturesque look. The windows were small, glazed with little diamond-
- •In delicious picturings to himself of the charmed life of a petted prince in a
- •Inclosure.
- •In the gaudy plumage of royalty. The two went and stood side by side before a
- •I bear. Fared we forth naked, there is none could say which was you, and
- •In a moment he had snatched up and put away an article of national
- •Importance that lay upon a table, and was out at the door and flying through
- •In whispers, and every face had in it dismay. Presently a splendid official
- •It grievously!
- •It be passed and he be as he was before. To wit, that he shall deny to none that
- •It not to trouble thee, for 'tis a matter that will not bide, but depart with thy
- •Voice; and blushed again.
- •In spite of every precaution, the conversation among the young people became
- •In patience; it will not be for long. Thou'lt yet be graced with learning like thy
- •Irreverence.'
- •It shall be as though thou hadst not spoken. But thou needst not have
- •It. Give thy misgivings easement, good my lord. This is the very prince, I know
- •It is the will of God that the prince's affliction abideth still, and he cannot
- •It were waste of precious time, and little worth withal, that any should attempt
- •Vicinity; nor did the commission waste time in giving the royal assent to the
- •Vanished from the steps. Now the air was heavy with the hush of suspense and
- •In the gold-and-crimson liveries of the prince. This done, a flourish of
- •In a low reverence, and began to step backward, bowing at each step. A
- •In Tom Canty, mad or sane. She could not describe it, she could not tell just
- •It pursued her, it harassed her, it clung to her, and refused to be put away or
- •Ignored. At last she perceived that there was not going to be any peace for her
- •In his face, he hath never been startled of a sudden out of his dreams or out of
- •Varied nor ever failed. Yes, I shall soon know now!'
- •Is a heavy day for me!'
- •In a moment all the heavy sorrow and misery which sleep had banished were
- •In the midst of his grief he began to be conscious of hilarious noises and
- •In a soft luminous glow from its countless invisible bonfires; above it rose
- •In their remoteness they seemed like jeweled lances thrust aloft; as the fleet
- •Instantly a hand was laid upon the prince, under the impulse of this happy
- •It seems — I am king!'
- •Village population, and everybody in it knew all his fellow-townsmen
- •Intimately, and had known their fathers and mothers before them — and all
- •Its fine old families of butchers, and bakers, and what not, who had occupied
- •It. And so they were in effect — at least they could exhibit it from their
- •In the times of which we are writing, the Bridge furnished 'object lessons' in
- •Vaguely lighted by a couple of sickly candles. The little king dragged himself
- •Immediately.
- •In my foreign dungeon, he will welcome the poor lad and give him generous
- •Inconvenient to continue it as it is. Yes, I will propose it; 'twas a happy
- •In our town did dwell" —
- •It, likewise.... These be very good and sound, and will keep his small feet warm
- •In disjointed and trembling syllables the man gave the information desired.
- •Vanished. Hendon followed after him, passed him, and plunged down the
- •I will ransack the land till I find thee again. Poor child, yonder is his breakfast
- •It will glad his heart, and I shall no more be beaten. One penny every week the
- •In his dream he reached his sordid home all out of breath, but with eyes
- •Vanished strength while fresh hose, without any damaged strings to them,
- •28000 Pounds during the preceding six months — a sum so vast that it made
- •Itself withal. I remember me of a small house that standeth over against the
- •Vacant,' — his present majesty being willing.
- •It now — go on.'
- •In thy lessons.'
- •It thou? Explain- speak out.'
- •Visit the sacred person of the Prince of Wales with blows; wherefore when he
- •Irksome. Then am I ruined, and mine orphan sisters with me!'
- •Very valuable information concerning personages and matters pertaining to
- •In public after a day or two — his wholesome complexion and vigorous step,
- •In labors pertaining to his royal office. Even the two hours devoted to certain
- •It off. The ordinary duties of the morning dragged upon his hands, and
- •Visit of ceremony from a considerable number of great officials and courtiers.
- •Interested in the life and movement of the great highway beyond the palace
- •Impatient expectancy; seeing which, the company forbore to trouble him, and
- •In a little while the measured tread of military men was heard approaching,
- •Innocent — neither hath that wherewith I am charged been more than but
- •It to the honor of your royal house.'
- •Into a house in the hamlet of Islington where one lay sick — three witnesses
- •Ill look for this poor man.'
- •In a worn and common garb; and surely this prisoner doth answer woundily
- •Voiced remarks were to this effect:
- •Individual murmured, 'An the king be mad himself, according to report, then
- •It is a madness of a sort that would improve the sanity of some I wot of, if by
- •Is a spacious apartment, with gilded pillars and pilasters, and pictured walls
- •If the king had been present.'
- •Very ungraceful in nicely fitting beautiful clothes after he has grown a little
- •Inclination of his plumed head, and a courteous 'I thank ye, my good people.'
- •Interest which could not have been more intense if it had been a deadly
- •Irritated now, and said he would stop here — it was Hendon's place to come to
- •It, then.'
- •It was some distance to the wood, but the space was speedily traversed. The
- •Inspiring words:
- •In the gang at some former time. His later history was called for, and when he
- •In cases like to this, for instance, when genius and culture depart and leave no
- •I and the wife — bearing with us the hungry kids — but it was a crime to be
- •I washed it off, ye might see the red s the branding iron left there! a slave!
- •Is thus they use me for it!'
- •Insolences meekly, without venturing to talk back. They snatched linen from
- •Vague, distant, indistinct; the muffled lowing of the herds floated to him on
- •In, bringing the lantern with them, and fell to work, talking meanwhile.
- •Into a drowse once more at last; and all at once he felt that mysterious touch
- •It was easy to think this; but it was hard to brace himself up to try it. Three
- •Very rats do make a bed of him, it surely meaneth that his fortunes be upon
- •Innocent eyes; then one of them plucked up all her courage and inquired with
- •It was a good, tight argument, without a leak in it anywhere; and it left
- •In the same line, went for nothing — the boy's face, and his answers, too,
- •In the palace before his reason went astray; yes, he must have helped in the
- •Very kitchen of the king himself! I will test him.'
- •Interruption. The interruption was John Canty- with a peddler's pack on his
- •It was his purpose, in the beginning, to stay where he was, the rest of the day;
- •Voice was praying, evidently. He glided to the one window of the hut, raised
- •I have walked in the courts of heaven, and held speech with the patriarchs.
- •Venomous curse, and now and then a pathetic 'Wherefore I am naught but an
- •Immediately came a succession of thundering knocks upon the cabin door,
- •It seemed an age till he heard the steps and voices approaching again — and
- •Ill-conditioned slave of a mule that I have provided for myself? — and had
- •Victim of small spitefulnesses at the hands of Canty and Hugo when the
- •Instantly a ring was formed around the gladiators, and the betting and
- •Implacable clutches of the law.
- •In pursuance of the first plan, he proposed to put a 'clime' upon the king's leg,
- •Iron; they took the boy out on a tinkering tramp, and as soon as they were out
- •Ingenious strategy, that it should seem to be accidental and unintentional; for
- •Very well. All in good time Hugo strolled off to a neighboring village with his
- •I come again,' and darted stealthily after the prey.
- •In some of the real kingdoms of this world.'
- •It was done. None remained but the two officials, the accused, the accuser,
- •I do, what can I do?'
- •Into loving frenzies over his Edith, and was so glad-hearted that he was even
- •It was a fair region, dotted with cottages and orchards, and the road led
- •View; whilst the returned prodigal, all aglow with gladness, smiled, laughed,
- •Interpreted ironically:
- •Identity is denied, and whose claims are derided. Thou hast company.'
- •Voice, for how could it be otherwise? Yet she said she knew me not, and that is
- •Is away, she will speak her true mind. She will remember the old times when
- •Impressively, 'It is the more dangerous for that you are much like what our
- •In the same peril, your punishment would be no less sure; he would deny you
- •If they be steady. There — now answer me. Am I Miles Hendon?'
- •In Prison (в тюрьме)
- •I be strangled for it.'
- •Voice, for the benefit of other hearers.
- •Interest:
- •Very grateful, and came to love them dearly and to delight in the sweet and
- •In file, standing, with their backs against the wall. A rope was stretched in
- •In the center of the court stood two women, chained to posts. A glance showed
- •Inaction. But now his trial came on, to his great gratification, and he thought
- •In the pillory for bearing that character and for assaulting the master of
- •Inclined.' He turned to a subordinate and said, 'Give the little fool a taste or
- •It — and neither shall they!' he added, with passion. While he mused, his
- •Is become a specter-earl! — a dizzy flight for a callow wing! An this go on, I
- •Itself; it was a bridge that would not need to be crossed till he should come to
- •It. He was an old campaigner, and used to inventing shifts and expedients; no
- •In a jail another, and called idiot and impostor by all impartially, the mock
- •Intricate and solemn ceremony in the morning. It came to be a proud pleasure
- •In rags and shreds — his share of the results of the riot — was wedged in
- •Vast fog of its own smoke, all but the very top of the tall pile called the White
- •In single ranks on either side, clad in burnished armor; after the Protector
- •In Fenchurch Street a 'fair child, in costly apparel,' stood on a stage to
- •VI himself, enthroned in royal majesty; and the whole pageant was framed
- •View the whole of the great north transept — empty, and waiting for
- •Is so overpowering; for he is crusted from head to heels with gems, and his
- •Ill comported with his soiled and sorry aspect, and delivered this note of
- •In an instant several indignant hands were laid upon the boy; but in the same
- •Instant Tom Canty, in his regal vestments, made a swift step forward and
- •Impulse. The thought in each mind was the same: 'What a strange
- •It was strange; it was wonderful; yes, it was unaccountable — so all said that
- •It was a lucky thought, a happy thought. That it was so considered by the
- •Inwardly with satisfaction, and looked to see this foolish lad stricken with a
- •In the neighborhood of the new-comer. Tom Canty stood almost alone. Now
- •Vanish away and no man be able to get track of it again — a massy golden
- •In my rags, to punish the soldier that insulted me.'
- •Instruments, and was white with a storm of waving handkerchiefs; and
- •I could not remember it myself?'
- •It. Then the coronation ceremonies were resumed; the true king was anointed
- •Instinct of unsound minds, when homeless and forsaken, as well as of sound
- •Indicated that his home was in one or other of the poorest and meanest
- •Itself with pestering and aggravating the boy, who would be proclaiming
- •It was not at all cold; so he stretched himself on the ground in the lee of a
- •Inconspicuous — his costume took care of that. He watched these people's
- •In such a worry about, then am I an ass — though belike I was that before. He
- •Indignant frowns, and for a sufficiency of amused and derisive smiles.
- •Veritable sovereign of England, and not the friendless poor Tom o' Bedlam I
- •In the presence of the majesty of England henceforth, age after age, so long as
- •In a dazed way, and muttering:
- •In return — and they valued it, too, for his was an honorable history.
28000 Pounds during the preceding six months — a sum so vast that it made
Tom Canty gasp; he gasped again when the fact appeared that 20000 of this
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money were still owing and unpaid; and once more when it appeared that the
king's coffers were about empty, and his twelve hundred servants much
embarrassed for lack of the wages due them. Tom spoke out, with lively
apprehension.
'We be going to the dogs, 'tis plain. 'Tis meet and necessary that we take a
smaller house and set the servants at large, sith they be of no value but to
make delay, and trouble one with offices that harass the spirit and shame the
soul, they misbecoming any but a doll, that hath nor brains nor hands to help
Itself withal. I remember me of a small house that standeth over against the
fish-market, by Billingsgate —'
A sharp pressure upon Tom's arm (резкое нажатие на руку Тома) stopped his
foolish tongue (остановило его глупый язык) and sent a blush to his face (и
послало краску в его лицо); but no countenance there betrayed any sign (но ни
одно лицо там не подало ни одного знака) that this strange speech had been
remarked or given concern (что эта странная речь была замечена или вызвала
беспокойство).
A secretary made report (секретарь сделал доклад) that forasmuch as the late
king (что ввиду того, что почивший король) had provided in his will (заявил в
своем завещании) for conferring the ducal degree upon the Earl of Hertford (о
жаловании герцогского титула графу Хартфорду) and raising his brother, Sir
Thomas Seymour (и о поднятии = переводе его брата, сэра Томаса Сеймура),
to the peerage (в сословие пэров), and likewise Hertford's son to an earldom (а
равно и сына Хартфорда — в графское звание), together similar
aggrandizements to other great servants of the crown (вместе с подобными
возвышениями другим великим слугам короны), the council had resolved to
hold a sitting (совет решил провести заседание) on the 16th February (16
февраля) for the delivering and confirming of these honors (для отдания и
подтверждения этих почестей); and that meantime the late king (и что в то же
время почивший король) not having granted (не пожаловав), in writing (в
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письменной форме), estates suitable to the support of these dignities (поместий,
пригодных для поддержания этих титулов), the council (совет), knowing his
private wishes in that regard (зная его личные желания в этом отношении), had
thought proper (счел подобающим) to grant to Seymour '500 pound lands'
(пожаловать Сеймуру земли на 500 фунтов) and to Hertford's son '800 pound
lands (а сыну Хартфорда — земли на 800 фунтов), and 300 pound of the next
bishop's lands (и на 300 фунтов от соседних земель епископа) which should fall
vacant (которые могут освободиться),' — his present majesty being willing (при
согласии его настоящего величества).
Tom was about to blurt out something (был готов выпалить что-нибудь) about
the propriety of paying (о уместности (того, чтобы) выплатить) the late king's
debts (долги покойного короля) first (сперва) before squandering all his money
(прежде чем расточать все его деньги); but a timely touch upon his arm (но
своевременное прикосновение к его руке), from the thoughtful Hertford (от
чуткого Хартфорда = сделанное им), saved him this indiscretion (сохранило его
от этой неосмотрительности); wherefore he gave the royal assent (по каковой
причине он дал свое королевское согласие), without spoken comment (без
произнесенного комментария), but with much inward discomfort (но с сильным
внутренним дискомфортом). While he sat (пока он сидел) reflecting a moment
over the ease (размышляя минуту над легкостью) with which he was doing
strange and glittering miracles (с которой он делал странные и блистательные
чудеса), a happy thought shot into his mind (счастливая мысль пришла ему на
ум; to shoot — стрелять; mind — сознание, мысли): why not make his mother
Duchess of Offal Court (почему бы не сделать свою мать герцогиней Тупика
отбросов) and give her an estate (и не дать ей поместье)? But a sorrowful
thought (но печальная мысль) swept it instantly away (смела это немедленно
прочь; to sweep — мести); he was only a king in name (он был королем только
по имени; only — только), these grave veterans and great nobles were his masters
(эти важные ветераны и великие дворяне были его хозяевами); to them his
mother was only the creature of a diseased mind (для них его мать была всего
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лишь созданием больного ума); they would simply listen to his project with
unbelieving ears (они просто выслушали бы его проект неверящими ушами),
then send for the doctor (затем послали бы за доктором).
The dull work went tediously on (скучная работа нудно продолжилась).
Petitions were read (петиции зачитывались), and proclamations (и
прокламации), patents (грамоты), and all manner of wordy, repetitious and
wearisome papers (и всякие виды многословных, повторяющихся и
утомительных бумаг) relating to the public business (относящихся к
государственным делам); and at last Tom sighed pathetically (и наконец Том
вздохнул жалобно) and murmured to himself (и пробормотал себе), 'In what
have I offended (в чем согрешил я), that the good God should take me away from
the fields and the free air and the sunshine (чтобы милостивый Бог забрал меня с
полей и вольного воздуха и солнечного света), to shut me up here and make me
a king and afflict me so (чтобы запереть меня здесь и сделать меня королем и
причинять мне боль так; to shut up — закрыть, заколотить, заткнуться; to
afflict — беспокоить; страдать; задевать, огорчать; причинять боль)?' Then
his poor muddled head nodded awhile (затем его бедная одурманенная голова
кивала какое-то время), and presently dropped to his shoulder (и вскоре упала
ему на плечо); and the business of the empire came to a standstill (и дела
империи зашли в тупик) for want of that august factor (из-за отсутствия
августейшего фактора), the ratifying power (ратифицирующей силы). Silence
ensued around the slumbering child (тишина воцарилась вокруг дремлющего
ребенка), and the sages of the realm ceased from their deliberations (и мудрецы
королевства прекратили свои обсуждения).
pressure [`preSə], assent [ə`sent], pathetically [pə`θetıklı]
A sharp pressure upon Tom's arm stopped his foolish tongue and sent a blush
to his face; but no countenance there betrayed any sign that this strange
speech had been remarked or given concern.
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A secretary made report that forasmuch as the late king had provided in his
will for conferring the ducal degree upon the Earl of Hertford and raising his
brother, Sir Thomas Seymour, to the peerage, and likewise Hertford's son to
an earldom, together similar aggrandizements to other great servants of the
crown, the council had resolved to hold a sitting on the 16th February for the
delivering and confirming of these honors; and that meantime the late king
not having granted, in writing, estates suitable to the support of these
dignities, the council, knowing his private wishes in that regard, had thought
proper to grant to Seymour '500 pound lands' and to Hertford's son '800
pound lands, and 300 pound of the next bishop's lands which should fall